#poet

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. ↗

— Charles Olson

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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. ↗

— Charles Olson

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You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. ↗

— Charles Olson

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. ↗

— George Oppen

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ↗

— George Orwell

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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. ↗

— George Orwell

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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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